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List of Chapters | Main Menu | Contact | About Futurepower ® Introduction: Links to articles from respected news sources tell the story. This is a story told partly through links to more than 600 pages of articles from some of the world's best news sources. For example, there is a link to an ABC News article that says that the CIA taught Arabs the techniques of terrorism, and then an Arab started his own school to teach terrorism. There are links to articles from CNN and other sources that begin to count the more than 3,000,000 people the U.S. government has killed in a little over 30 years. There is a link to an official U.S. government document, from a U.S. government web site, that says that the CIA aided in killing a democratically elected leader in Chile, and then supported the violent dictator who replaced him. There is a link to an ABC News article that says that U.S. government military involvement in Afghanistan began 21 years ago. You can see an official oil company document, from the company web site, that discusses why there is interest in building a gas pipeline through Afghanistan. You can read official testimony about this to the U.S. government. You can read a May 1995 article, "Weapons at War" that says, "In the past ten years, parties to 45 current conflicts have taken delivery of over $42 billion worth of U.S. weaponry." If you are new to reading about U.S. involvement in other countries, you may find this chapter of this book useful: To understand the present conflict, consider the past. The present conflict in Afghanistan is linked to the removal of President Mossadegh of Iran in 1953. He wanted his country to own its oil fields, but the CIA opposed him. As background material, you may be interested to know that the U.S. has more than 6 times the percentage of its citizens in prison as European countries. Links are provided to develop this statistic for comparison of the U.S. and the United Kingdom. There is also help for doing your own research, should you want that. New links to stories are added to this book frequently. The book started as a short letter to friends supplying a few links and providing some explanation. The author of this book is a U.S. citizen who loves the United States passionately, and wants to take the time to understand his country's problems. Stylistic differences Note that when there are stylistic differences, quotes are changed to the style used in this book. So, for example, US [no periods] in a quoted story becomes U.S. [with periods] in this book. If making changes might have an effect on the meaning, no changes are made. List of Chapters | Main Menu | Contact | About Futurepower ® | Go to top Futurepower
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